Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Gwyneth Paltrow, the famous and beautiful actress, was diagnosed with early osteopenia at the age of 38 and created a media furor last week. The media loves a scary story and the Gwyneth Paltrow story appears to be scary at first glance indeed. The outcome of the story is not an improvement in the general knowledge about bone health, but rather more fearful people swept away by another celebrity calamity. With little knowledge about what osteopenia is, we find ourselves under attack to diagnose it early and treat it promptly. Or so the media would have us do. Gwyneth is...
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Thursday, August 05, 2010

Consumer Reports, usually a reliable guide on what to buy, is dishing some dubious advice in its September issue on “The 12 Most Dangerous Supplements.” The magazine identified 12 supplements “to avoid” and 11 “to consider’” based on research and case studies from Natural Medicines Comprehensive Database. As a physician who works with supplements and FDA approved prescription medications I would like to tell readers there are several facts to bear in mind before they swallow the Consumer Reports story. The supplements “to avoid” are all herbs. Herbal supplementation is difficult at best for the western world to comprehend. Herbals...
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